Man caught with 900 stolen discs, including GoW2 & Fable II

A man was caught with more than $100,000 worth of stolen games and DVDs, …

If you ever wondered how games get leaked early, well, here is one of the ways. Rodney Gray, an employee at Technicolor, a company that packages game and DVD discs, was caught with more than $100,000 worth of stolen games and movies.

Among the 900 discs were copies of two upcoming games, Gears of War 2 and Fable II. Gray was pulled over for several driving violations—including driving with a suspended license—when he was discovered with a bag of 31 games. He then admitted to police that he worked at Technicolor and planned to sell the stolen merchandise. Of the discs found, about 97 were the two stolen Xbox 360 games. Police are unsure as to how many copies had been sold by that point.

In order for piracy to occur, there usually has to be a breakdown at some point during the production process. In this case, it happened during packaging.

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